Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor ('The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success ('Nevsky Prospect') and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat ('The Overcoat'). Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire
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When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationships between all life forms, both present and extinct, were more complex than the Christian version of the world’s creation purported them to be. During his five-year voyage of discovery on board HMS Beagle and more than two decades subsequently devoted to research, he painstakingly collected a mass of evidence from across the planet – from Paraguay and the Galapagos Islands to Staffordshire and Scotland – building a compelling case for the theory of natural selection, which would change the way we look at the world for ever • The founding text of evolutionary biology – which prompted a revolution in the fields of science and religion similar in magnitude to the discoveries of Copernicus and Newton – Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was an instant best-seller when it was published in 1859 and has become a cultural milestone that has influenced a wide range of disciplines of human knowledge
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"Загадку" Гоголя, пожалуй, точнее других сформулировал И.С.Аксаков: "Много еще пройдет времени, пока уразумеется вполне все глубокое и строгое значение Гоголя, этого монаха-художника, христианина-сатирика, аскета и юмориста, этого мученика возвышенной мысли и неразрешимой задачи!" В настоящем издании представлены знаменитейшие произведения Гоголя - от "Вечеров на хуторе близ Диканьки", о которых А.С.Пушкин писал: "...все обрадовались этому живому описанию племени, поющего и пляшущего, этим свежим картинам малороссийской природы, этой веселости, простодушной и вместе лукавой", до "Мертвых душ" - набора "раздувшихся мертвых душ... описанных с чисто гоголевским смаком и богатством жутковатых подробностей, которые поднимают это произведение до уровня гигантской эпической поэмы
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